 | 1834 - 654 Seiten
...with the Thrales and Mr. Barett i ; he kept a journal of (his tour, in which he had written it in his usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." In the August of the same year he lost his friend Sir. Thrale, who appointed him one of his executors,... | |
 | 1834 - 602 Seiten
...he paused, says Boswell, " grew more and more agitated, and burst into tears, had written it in his usual way, dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." In the August of the same year he lost his friend Mr. Thrale, who appointed him one of his executors,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 458 Seiten
...Slackmore. — Philips. — — Congreve.—Tickell.— Akenside.— Lord Lyttleton. — Young. — Swift. IN 1781, Johnson at last completed his " Lives of...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." (') In a memorandum previous to this, (l) This facility of writing, and this dilatoriness ever to write,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 Seiten
...Blackmore. — Philips. — — Congreve—TickeU.—Akenside.— Lord Lyttkton. — Young. — Swift. IN 1781, Johnson at last completed his " Lives of...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." ^) In a memorandum previous to this, write, Dr. Johnson always retained, from the days that he lay... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 Seiten
...Johnson has given a description of their manner of composition. " Some time in March," are iiis words, " I finished the Lives of the Poets, which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and hastily, un wiling to work, and working with vigour and haste." That we have so much worth reading in these... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 Seiten
...answers and dilatory debates. Johnson. Falklanfi blandí. Sometime in March I finished the Lain »/ tne Poets, which I •wrote in my usual way dilatorily...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste. la. Prayers and Meditations, p. 190« DILATORY PLEAS, in Laic, are such аз are put to delay a suit,... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 Seiten
...of the English Poets," which he completed in 1781. "Some time in March," says he in his meditations, "I finished the Lives of the Poets; which I wrote...my usual way, dilatorily and hastily ; unwilling to write, but working with vigour and haste." Though now upwards of seventy years of age, yet in this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 Seiten
...and brought it to a close. " Some time in March" (he observes in his annual review made Easter, 1781) "I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." What he has said of Addison and "Cato" is still more applicable to his own achievement, " Cato," he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 Seiten
...Poets were published ; and the remainder in the year 1781, which he wrote, by his own confession, " dilatorily and hastily, unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." He had, however, performed so much more than was expected, that his employers presented him with 1001.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 320 Seiten
...CROFT—YOUNG'S " NIGHT THOUGHTS"—SWIFT—KEV JOSEPH SPENCE—ATTACKS ON "THE LIVES OF THE POETS." IN 1781, Johnson at last completed his "Lives of the...unwilling to work, and working with vigour and haste." In a memorandum previous to this, he says of them :—" Written, I hope, in such a manner as may tend... | |
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the best philosopher whom I have ever seen or known." In 1781, Johnson at last completed his " Lives of the Poets," of which he gives this account: " Some time in March I finished the ' Lives of the Poets,' which I wrote in my usual way, dilatorily and... 
